Peter Wilby

Peter John Wilby (born 7 November 1944) is a British journalist.

Wilby was educated at Kibworth Beauchamp grammar school in Leicestershire^[1] before graduating with a degree in History from the University of Sussex, where he helped found a short-lived university paper called Sussex Outlook. In 1968 he started writing for The Observer.^[2] He was Education Correspondent of the New Statesman in the 1970s^[3] and for the Sunday Times in the 1980s. Wilby joined The Independent on Sunday in 1990 and eventually became its editor (1995–96). Subsequently he was editor of the New Statesman from 1998 to 2005, when he was dismissed, but still writes a weekly First Thoughts column for the journal. He now also writes for The Observer and The Guardian.

References

^ "Who's Who in the Press Gang", The Independent, London, 28 August 2006.
^ "My Greatest Mistake", The Independent, London, 8 October 2002.
^ Wilby, Peter (3 October 2005). "My Mentor". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/my-mentor-peter-wilby-on-anthony-howard-509421.html. Retrieved 19 January 2011.

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Preceded by Ian Jack	Editor of The Independent on Sunday 1995–1996	Succeeded by Rosie Boycott
Preceded by Ian Hargreaves	Editor of the New Statesman 1998–2005	Succeeded by John Kampfner

Editors of The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and i

The Independent	1986 Andreas Whittam Smith 1994 Ian Hargreaves 1995 Charles Wilson 1996 Andrew Marr 1998 Rosie Boycott / Andrew Marr 1998 Simon Kelner 2008 Roger Alton 2010 Simon Kelner 2011 Chris Blackhurst

The Independent on Sunday	1990 Stephen Glover 1991 Ian Jack 1995 Peter Wilby 1996 Rosie Boycott 1998 Kim Fletcher 1999 Janet Street-Porter 2002 Tristan Davies 2008 John Mullin

i	2010 Simon Kelner 2011 Stefano Hatfield

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